1 Corinthians 12:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

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  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless. 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love. 1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

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    12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

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    1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

  • 1 Cor 12:29-30
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    29`are' all apostles? `are' all prophets? `are' all teachers? `are' all powers?

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    1And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

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    1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

    2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

    3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

    4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

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    39so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

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    13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.

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    5and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

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    31but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

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    8for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

    9and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;

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    7for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

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    4And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

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    14and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

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    9The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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  • Phil 1:9-10
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    9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

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    8and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

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    10for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

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    31Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

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    14let all your things be done in love.

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    6And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'

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    23and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

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    26What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

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    7so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    8The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

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    15of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

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    15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

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    9and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak,

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    15As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

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    29out of all your gifts ye do lift up the whole heave-offering of Jehovah; out of all its fat, -- its hallowed part -- out of it.

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    5Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.